Recently, dji innovation announced the launch of its first educational robot: robot master RoboMaster S1.Adhering to the concept of education through entertainment, the product is equipped with 31 sensors, such as force, light and sound, and has a central processor. It is committed to allowing users to learn artificial intelligence, robot and related programming knowledge while enjoying the fun of competition.

Before this, we never thought that dji, the world's largest drone market, would launch a programmable educational robot.Because dji's uav products are so excellent and deeply rooted in people's hearts, why do we set foot in a field that we are not good at? Is it just a preference for robots?

One reason, say the editors, is that the consumer drone market is now 'big picture,' and that dji is now truly dominant, suggesting that the company has hit the ceiling in the industry.On the other hand, at present, laws of various countries are gradually improving the regulation of uav. The increasing restricted flying areas and related obstruction policies make the in-depth development of consumer uav more and more unclear.Often, enterprises without strong competitors are prone to be in dangerous times and will not make progress if they are satisfied with the status quo. Although such a move may seem like seeking trouble for nothing from the outside world, it is actually a kind of thinking of danger in times of peace for dji itself.

In fact, dji has been trying to open up the application market of industrial drones for several years, focusing on providing value in industry, agriculture and other fields and expanding its boundaries.As for the cross-field aspect, educational robot is just one of the expanding directions. With the emergence of consumer uav's imaging technology, it has also started to be put into production.For example, the lingmou sports camera, which was released by dji earlier, directly complained about GoPro, the dominant player in the field. Immediately after the release of the first product, dji came under direct pressure from GoPro, whose share price reflected the market's attitude.It can be seen that the industry is still relatively recognized for the new products developed by dji, and even traditional rivals are directly affected.

RoboMaster S1, launched by dji, cannot be compared with ordinary programmable educational robots.It is reported, it is a module assembly, programming of sport education, and many people give attention to two or morethings education robot, integrated the advantages of general programmable education robot, and the big xinjiang armed drone technology on this machine, such as the appearance of camera reference is their own uav design, yuntai technology from the Ronin S, antennas and the module is the core technologies such as constructing the accumulation of many years' background '.In addition, in the activation page, graph connection, WiFi binding and even four-wheel positioning before the start are not far from the activation mode of uav.

Previously, the editor had a premonition that after dji's uav technology to control the sky becomes mature, the layout of 'walking on the ground' will also come.But dji has never really admitted to the outside world, the launch of the robot, is undoubtedly the starting point of the 'ground layout'.In general, master RoboMaster S1 has up to 46 programming control parts. No matter in single player programming or multi-player competitive games, it tries to combine programming with mathematical physics, artificial intelligence and other knowledge and apply it to different scenes.RoboMaster S1, with the help of artificial intelligence module and software technology, combines learning and competition organically, allowing users to practice knowledge in a fun confrontation. But why start from education?

In retrospect, dji is indeed a company founded on campus, whose corporate culture is fundamentally similar to that of university research rooms. Outstanding young engineers from all over the world have been able to bump into each other to inspire creativity and grow by verifying knowledge through practice.Obviously, there is a gap between practice and theory that needs to be filled, which is also where the students output from the traditional education model need to be honed into practical talents.This educational robot aims to help students learn programming. Just like the suffix S1, it represents dji's first step into the field of robot education.In the next few years, we believe that we will see related curriculum activities and hardware will be gradually promoted, which is probably dji's vision for education.